Hitchman, William, Rifleman, R/7916, 8th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Born: Dale Abbey, Derby
Enlisted: Ilkeston
Killed in action 12th April 1917
Aged 29
Son of Thomas and Martha Hitchman, of Dale Abbey, Ilkeston; husband of Lizzie Hitchman of Dale Abbey, Ilkeston
Commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France, Bay 7.

1911 Census
Born Dale Abbey, Derbyshire, about 1888
Employed as a coal miner hewer
Husband of Lizzie, and father of George William Hitchman, of The Moor, Dale Abbey, Derbyshire